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title: 'Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique'
date: 2015-02-22
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A map, as of the 22nd February 2015, of Chapter Two of the book I am slowly working on.
Mimetic representation academy not only possible interaction
Intertextuality can be seen as academy-like function of (self-)canonisation

Tom McCarthy's C

University English haunts text
Public persona of author as popular literary critic
Synopsis of C
Inter-textuality key to novel and its marketing
Thomas Pynchon
Melanie Jackson as literary agent
Novel situates itself within postmodern lineage
Taxonomies
Novel attempts to canonise itself
Usurps supposed function of university English
C's metafictional histories are also literary histories
C is not the only text to do this
Bechdel's Fun Home
Franzen's Freedom
But good example of overlap with university practice

Plays

Conclusion

C is metafictional
C situates itself in various lineages through intertextuality
C has qualities of the historical novel
This becomes a text about literary histories/histories of genre
This self-situation has an academy-like function
Or at least betrays an influential anxiety of academia